Hi, Thanks for the tip! I'll try it asap! :) Pontus ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Faller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pontus Edvardsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 8:24 AM Subject: Re: Matrox G550 32MB under Woody
> On Thursday 27 December 2001 15:53, Janine Roe wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I just bought myself a Matrox G550 (as G400 & G450 no longer seems to > > > be available). It has Linux support ofcourse, but I cannot seem to > > > make X work in any higher resolutions than VGA (640x480) and SVGA > > > (320x200)!!? XFree86 (tried stable, testing and unstable as well) > > > complains about missing chipset entries and such... When specifying > > > anything more than 8-bit color depth, it tells me the chipset does not > > > support this resolution. Obviosly it does not recognize the card > > > correctly, wondering how most people got it working? I'm getting all > > > sorts of errors and are at present really confused, so please tell me > > > the steps nessesary to make it work. For the moment I have windows > > > installed, but are keen on getting Debian installed correctly, as I > > > like it much better. > I have the same card here, runnig sid (xserver-xfree86 4.1.0-11). The Matrox > G550 works without any problems. The only thing I had to do was to download > the the mga & mga_hal drivers from the matrox web site, and put them into > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/. > > > Daniel > > > _____________________________________________ > Daniel Faller > Fakultaet fuer Physik > Abt. Honerkamp > Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg > > Tel.: 0761-203-5875 > Fax.: 0761-203-5967 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > URL: http://webber.physik.uni-freiburg.de/~fallerd > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
